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What began as detection has now morphed into a thriller. And the suspense works quite as it’s supposed to…

I suppose that reason people don’t like this type of book is that Manny’s prose tends toward the baroque. But I love it!

“Mrs. Richardson was a superb woman of middle age, rather too fashionably gowned, and overjeweled…. the kind of woman who hoards life like a miser. The gold of her youth having tarnished, what little remained she kept gilding… in extravagant self-delusion. Now she writhed and shrieked